Posted by The Guardian | May 18, 2022 | Bank of England, Business, Consumer spending, Cost of living crisis, Economics, Energy bills, Family finances, Food & drink industry, Household bills, Inflation, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Money, Office for National Statistics, Pay, Petrol prices, Politics, Rishi Sunak, Sterling, The Guardian, UK news |
Headline CPI rate fuelled by increase in household energy bills plus rising food and transport costsBusiness live updates: UK inflation hits 9% as energy bills soarUK inflation soared to 9% in April – its highest level for...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | May 18, 2022 | Europe, Russia, The Guardian, Ukraine, World News |
Concerns grow for welfare of 250 Ukrainian fighters who surrendered to Russian forces in Mariupol after weeks of resistance; US to create new unit to research alleged war crimes by RussiaFate of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | May 17, 2022 | Europe, The Guardian, Ukraine |
Fewer than 50 residents have stayed in Kutuzivka since Russian forces invaded. But even when Ukrainian soldiers took it back, some in the village had nowhere to go but undergroundTymofiy Seidov is the only child left in his...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | May 17, 2022 | Health, Midwifery, NHS, Nursing, Politics, Society, The Guardian, UK news |
More nurses leave NHS than at any time since Covid struck, many reporting stress as their main reasonMore than 27,000 nurses and midwives quit the NHS last year, with many blaming job pressures, the Covid pandemic and poor...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | May 17, 2022 | Boris Johnson, Foreign policy, Iran, Jeremy Hunt, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Politics, The Guardian |
Alistair Burt tells inquiry he urged then foreign secretary in 2018 to ask Theresa May to authorise payment to release dual nationalsBoris Johnson appeared to accept advice while foreign secretary that payment of the £400m...
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